Dams Quote by Rajiv Gandhi

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life,…

— Amartya Sen

The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy…

— Mahbub ul Haq

The solution of present-day problems lie in the re-establishment of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. To keep this relationship permanent we will…

— Sunderlal Bahuguna

Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped,…

— E. F. Schumacher

Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.

— Anonymous

Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

— Kailash Satyarthi

Development must be such that it positively transforms the lives of the common people.

— Narendra Modi

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

— Albert Einstein

Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity…

— George Monbiot

“continue polluting while trying to offset the damage through some face-saving corporate philanthropy exercises. We would be fools to assume that we can simply…

— Lorenzo Fioramonti

The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life.

— John Dewey

We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the…

— Dalai Lama